Regimes of Language: Ideologies, Polities, and Identities

by Kroskrity, Paul V.

• ISBN13: 9780933452626
• ISBN10: 0933452624
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-02-01
• Publisher: Univ of New Mexico Pr

Summary

In Regimes of Language, ten leading linguistic anthropologists integrate two often segregated domains: politics (without language) and language (without politics). Their essays contribute to an understanding of the role of language ideologies and discursive practices in state formation, nationalism, and the maintenance of ethnic groups, on the one hand, and in the creation of national, ethnic, and professional identities, on the other. Moving beyond a preoccupation with ideologies of cultural "others," the volume includes reflexive analyses of European language philosophy and historical linguistics, US academic ideologies of language, political discourses by US journalists and elite image advisors, and the impact of Christian missionaries on indigenous peoples in the Papua New Guinea highlands.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Illustrations	ix
Acknowledgments	x
Regimenting Languages: Language Ideological Perspectives	1	(34)
Paul V. Kroskrity
Language Ideology and Linguistic Differentiation	35	(50)
Judith T. Irvine
Susan Gal
Whorfianism and the Linguistic Imagination of Nationality	85	(54)
Michael Silverstein
Language Philosophy as Language Ideology: John Locke and Johann Gottfried Herder	139	(66)
Richard Bauman
Charles L. Briggs
Indonesian ('s) Authority	205	(24)
Joseph Errington
Constructing a Tongan Nation-State through Language Ideology in the Courtroom	229	(30)
Susan U. Philips
``Read My Article'': Ideological Complexity and the Overdetermination of Promising in American Presidential Politics	259	(34)
Jane H. Hill
Introducing Kaluli Literacy: A Chronology of Influences	293	(36)
Bambi B. Schieffelin
Language Ideologies in the Expression and Representation of Arizona Tewa Ethnic Identity	329	(32)
Paul V. Kroskrity
References	361	(40)
Index	401